My 'Boys were Alive and Kicking - SD is out - GB down - NY for the win!!!
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Wulf Ratbane
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Twenty years from now when we are watching NFL Film highlights of this game:
1) 4th and 13
2) Manning squirming out of the pocket and nailing that pass. (Watching him just slip out of the grasp of the defense was a metaphor for the perfect season doing the same...)
3) The total domination of the Giants defense. Next to the Pats losing the game, the biggest travesty of the game was that entire Giants defensive line not getting MVP. They won. the. game.
Anybody who says the Pats played a great game-- Your graciousness is appreciated, but no... no they did not.
1) 4th and 13
2) Manning squirming out of the pocket and nailing that pass. (Watching him just slip out of the grasp of the defense was a metaphor for the perfect season doing the same...)
3) The total domination of the Giants defense. Next to the Pats losing the game, the biggest travesty of the game was that entire Giants defensive line not getting MVP. They won. the. game.
Anybody who says the Pats played a great game-- Your graciousness is appreciated, but no... no they did not.
GlassJaw
Hero
Wulf Ratbane said:
That pretty much sums it up. They played the complete opposite of how they played the rest of the season. They were extremely conservative and could never really get on track. Major props to the Giants defense. The Giants killed the Pats on 3rd-down conversions. The Pats just couldn't stop them when they had to.
It was the Pats-Rams all over again, except this time the Pats were Goliath.
Kahuna Burger
First Post
Things to be sad about :
1) A truely perfect season would have been interesting to see.
2) The hubby could have used some cheering up this weekend.
Things to be happy about :
1) The taping violation will finally be let go and fade to it's true insignificance.
2) from what I heard, they were planning that a potential victory parade would take place tommorow, during the polling, even though it could block polling stations. Call me a grump, but NO sports event is worth disrupting ANY election.
So no big cheers or tears over here. Then again I was napping through most of the game.
1) A truely perfect season would have been interesting to see.
2) The hubby could have used some cheering up this weekend.
Things to be happy about :
1) The taping violation will finally be let go and fade to it's true insignificance.
2) from what I heard, they were planning that a potential victory parade would take place tommorow, during the polling, even though it could block polling stations. Call me a grump, but NO sports event is worth disrupting ANY election.
So no big cheers or tears over here. Then again I was napping through most of the game.
Olaf the Stout
Legend
Wow....just Wow!!!! 
That was the best NFL game I have seen. And I say this as a Cowboys fan who watched all 3 of their 90's Superbowl victories. Sure, the game may not have been high scoring, but damn if it wasn't exciting.
In Australia the game was on from about 9:30am onwards so I had to tape it and somehow not see the result on the internet during the day. Miraculously I managed to do that and boy was I glad that I did. My wife said a couple of things to me about the game that she had seen on the news that made me think the Pats had won it (she knows absolutely nothing about American football).
I was watching the last quarter, waiting to see when the Pat's would finally break it open. When they scored to go up 14-10 I thought, "Ok, that must be it then." Apparently not.
Even after the Giants managed to score their second TD, I still thought that the Pat's would take it down the field, score a field goal and send it into OT. Nope.
The Giants defence had just about as good a game as I have seen. The defensive coordinator was the MVP for mine. Even with the awesome game the defence played though I still thought that the Giants were going to lose. Their offence just couldn't get the ball down the field after that big opening drive at the start of the game.
For most of the game the Giant's offence pretty much sucked. Manning wasn't doing a lot wrong but the receivers couldn't seem to hang on to the ball. Yes, some of his passes could have been a little better directed, but at that level you should be catching those. The interception should have been an incomplete pass at the very worst. How he managed to bobble the ball into the air I don't know.
In the end though the players stepped up when they needed to. The clutch pass by Manning while slipping out from 2 tacklers was awesome. The catch by Tyree, pinning the ball to his helmet at one point, with 3 players covering him was even better.
All in all it was an awesome game. It was about 11:30pm by the time I had seen the end. Even still I didn't get to sleep until after midnight since I was still buzzing from the game. And this is from someone who doesn't even support either team! I can't imagine what I would have been like if the Cowboys were playing!
Olaf the Stout
That was the best NFL game I have seen. And I say this as a Cowboys fan who watched all 3 of their 90's Superbowl victories. Sure, the game may not have been high scoring, but damn if it wasn't exciting.
In Australia the game was on from about 9:30am onwards so I had to tape it and somehow not see the result on the internet during the day. Miraculously I managed to do that and boy was I glad that I did. My wife said a couple of things to me about the game that she had seen on the news that made me think the Pats had won it (she knows absolutely nothing about American football).
I was watching the last quarter, waiting to see when the Pat's would finally break it open. When they scored to go up 14-10 I thought, "Ok, that must be it then." Apparently not.
Even after the Giants managed to score their second TD, I still thought that the Pat's would take it down the field, score a field goal and send it into OT. Nope.
The Giants defence had just about as good a game as I have seen. The defensive coordinator was the MVP for mine. Even with the awesome game the defence played though I still thought that the Giants were going to lose. Their offence just couldn't get the ball down the field after that big opening drive at the start of the game.
For most of the game the Giant's offence pretty much sucked. Manning wasn't doing a lot wrong but the receivers couldn't seem to hang on to the ball. Yes, some of his passes could have been a little better directed, but at that level you should be catching those. The interception should have been an incomplete pass at the very worst. How he managed to bobble the ball into the air I don't know.
In the end though the players stepped up when they needed to. The clutch pass by Manning while slipping out from 2 tacklers was awesome. The catch by Tyree, pinning the ball to his helmet at one point, with 3 players covering him was even better.
All in all it was an awesome game. It was about 11:30pm by the time I had seen the end. Even still I didn't get to sleep until after midnight since I was still buzzing from the game. And this is from someone who doesn't even support either team! I can't imagine what I would have been like if the Cowboys were playing!
Olaf the Stout
The last quarter was pretty dang riveting. I'm not sure if it was the best game I've ever seen, but it was definitely one of the most exciting Super Bowls.
That play was just jaw-dropping. Though, I can't see David Tyree, without thinking about the old Y-Wing pilot from "A New Hope": "Lost Tyree, lost Dutch..."
Olaf the Stout said:
That play was just jaw-dropping. Though, I can't see David Tyree, without thinking about the old Y-Wing pilot from "A New Hope": "Lost Tyree, lost Dutch..."
Kahuna Burger
First Post
Were any penalties called on the Giants during the game? Guess "cheaters" won. Those poor confused kids.jaerdaph said:Not really, because it stands as a great example that will stand the test of time to re-enforce a valuable lesson to the kids out there:
CHEATERS NEVER WIN!
Sorry, I really should let this go now...
Bet there might even be a couple of players on the team who have been fined by the nfl. I will go out on a limb here and say that no team will ever win the superbowl without a rules violation. It falls on the critics of the Pats to show that their rules violation was so incredibly heinous compared to any other, and from a mostly disinterested sideline, they haven't.
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